Kamran Djam Annual Lecture at SOAS: Nizâmî’s Brides of the Seven Climes

“Nizâmî’s Brides of the Seven Climes“ was the second Kamran Djam Annual Lecture of 2015, it was given by Michael Barry (Princeton University) on 3rd February 2015 at the Centre for Iranian Studies, London Middle East Institute, SOAS, University of London. The tales told by King Bahrâm’s seven brides follow each other in a dizzying succession of enchanted adventures drawing upon Zoroastrian and Manichaean and Indian and even Classical Greek lore - many corresponding to the po